I ran into 2 blue chests last night while doing 2 different leves. It's definitely not broken.

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Ran across a Blue/Silver chest last night. Contained about 6k gil and a radiant wind moraine that sorted to random party members loot. This was one a leve that had 3 links. We encountered two other "normal" chests as well each giving on average 2-3k gil and those leves had zero links.

yep, I've gotten a couple. All standard blue. I'm wondering if solo they are always blue, groups are the next tier, and faction leves are the best ones. Only a guess.

Nope. Solo leves I've found black (or blue? first tier "normal" chests, I see black) and also one tier up of the new chests in the game...the tier up gave me a crappier amount of gil but I was only doing Black Brush leves.

Helped one of my buddies do a R40 Faction Leve at Broken Water, and when we killed the last mob, out popped this HUMONGOUS Silver chest...to be honest, it looked more like a big slab with a lid on top, but anyway...it gave 6k Gil and a Ripped Haub to boot ^^

When i first saw the pics of different boxes I thought that it might be that one has gil, one has gill + equipment and one has gil + clusters/morraines, but now I am guessing that it merely refers to the quanity of gil that can be obtained (i.e. the higher level boxes give more gil).

There doesn't seem to be a way to predict wether or not a chest will give extra items, despite the theories on party members, dificulty star of quest or amount of leves linked.

Just wanted to see what happens if I quoted your color blindness :P. But I honestly don't think I'm color blind and some people are saying that tier one chests are blue, I see black, and I see tier two chests as blue and white? and tier 3 chests are gold and brown-ish? should I just stop living in denial and get some help??

Just wanted to see what happens if I quoted your color blindness :P. But I honestly don't think I'm color blind and some people are saying that tier one chests are blue, I see black, and I see tier two chests as blue and white? and tier 3 chests are gold and brown-ish? should I just stop living in denial and get some help??

I got all 3 grades of chest pretty frequently since the patch went live. The blue/silver and red/gold ones had more gil than the brown/black ones, but I haven't had any really good rewards (equipment) in a while. Algoat horn and raptor talon yesterday, though.